The Killing Floor Film 1985

Movie info during world war i impoverished african american father frank custer damien leake leaves his southern family and heads to chicago in search of work.

The killing floor film 1985.

After premiering on pbs american playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews the killing floor was invited to cannes and later won the 1985 sundance film festival special jury award. Director bill duke cast cynthia baker dennis farina and clarence felder synopsis imdb during world war i a poor black southerner travels north to chicago to get work in the city s slaughterhouses where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. Marc blucas stars as the agent who receives videotapes of himself in the mail fears someone is watching him and ultimately falls apart as his paranoia gets the better of him. Black migration from the deep south at the time of world war i as seen through the eyes of frank custer leake a sharecropper who comes to the promised.

A revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in fiction. Fiction becomes fact as the agent of a horror novelist moves into a new apartment where spooky events besiege him in the killing floor.